Anyone interested in GPL licensing issue might want to check out MySQL AB's web site at http://www.mysql.com/. Apparently NuSphere is infringing on MySQL AB's GPL and trademarks (e.g., http://www.mysql.org is owned by NuSphere and is not readily identifiable as such.) MySQL.og makes statements like "mySQL.org is dedicated to the promotion and improvement of the fast, free, and flexible MySQL database. We provide the Open Source community a center for free downloads, information and communication, as well as all the files you need to build applications based on MySQL, the #1 open source database." Isn't that nice of NuSphere. Like MySQL.COM doesn't exist, right? If you really want to puke, check out their page recruiting developers (http://www.mysql.org/devel.php?menu=17&page_id=5). Gee, I though MySQL was already great, doink, drool, duh! Understand, that I'm not a guy who _buys_ the open source will take over the world dream. I think Eric Raymond, for example, is a brilliant guy selling an economic theory worthy of a crank. Total waste. However, I do think an operating system like Linux is needed to fend off the likes of Microsoft. Any open source network centric operating system is too important to everyone living on this earth to have it locked up and proprietary. Our basic human freedoms are at stake here. Great software like MySQL is also a cornerstone in the very foundation of our networked freedom. An unscrupulous company like NuSphere ought to get royally reamed on this one. MySQL AB's conciliatory approach (http://www.mysql.com/news/article-76.html) is as reasonable as it is naive. MySQL should sue the brains out of these corporate scum bags, and if they don't have the funds to carry out an international lawsuit, we ought to all get behind them and cough up the bucks, not rhetoric, to help them out. You can count me in. evervigilantpenguinista&oopsandaway)(X)<:~ P.S. -- Can anyone loan me twenty bucks until pay day? -- Dennis
